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• 01 fév 2019

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  Rebuilding / Restoring Rome

  The Renewal of Buildings and Spaces as Urban Policy, from Antiquity to the Present

  Everywhere in Rome, monuments are covered with ancient or modern inscriptions that not only contain the name of the original builder but also commemorate their restoration. Popes from the Quattrocento and Cinquecento who acted as urban planners, such as Sixtus IV, presented themselves as ‘restorers’, even when they were actually modernising the City. This phenomenon is not restricted to the Renaissance period: many Roman emperors already claimed to be rebuilders, such as Augustus who repaired all the damaged temples of Rome according to the Res Gestae, or Septimius Severus who was called Restitutor Vrbis on his coinage. Rome thus seems to be a city that constantly needs to be restored, rebuilt, born again. This conference aims to investigate how the notions of restoration and rebuilding were a driving force of Rome’s urban transformation throughout its history, from Antiquity to the 21^st century, as well as a political program put forward by the authorities and an ideal more or less shared by the different key actors of the city.

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• 09 nov 2012

  22 mar 2013

  08 nov 2013

  Sion

  Seminar - History

  Industry in the Alps, between memory and the phenomena of heritagisation - 19th-20th centuries

  The memory of work: Gazing from the inside

  Au cœur de la journée d’étude se trouvent les processus de transmission de la mémoire de l’histoire du travail industriel élaborés « à l’intérieur », à savoir les acteurs directement impliqués dans le travail industriel. Plus particulièrement, cette rencontre souhaite vérifier et discuter de quelle manière et dans quelle mesure les changements économiques, technologiques et sociaux qui se sont succédés au cours du XXe siècle ont affecté ces dynamiques. Un regard particulier sera dédié aux processus de déindustrialisation dans ses diverses formes (restructuration des filières productives, déstructuration du tissu socio-économique local, tertiarisation de l’économie, phénomènes de délocalisation…) et à leur impact sur la mémoire industrielle. Elles offrent l’occasion d’analyser diverses questions, notamment : que reste-t-il du passé industriel dans les souvenirs des travailleurs et de la population qui en a vécu la quotidienneté ? Quels sont les éléments qu’un contexte industriel valorise dans une perspective identitaire ? Quels sont lesconnexions entre la mémoire et le territoire (lieux de la mémoire) ?

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